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    The new Natalie Imbruglia CD, White Lilies Island, was launched in Europe furnished with software designed to hinder illegal copying. But listeners complained that it hijacks their PC to play only in low-fi, refuses to play on some Apple Macs and does not play properly on some consumer players. As sold, the CD carries no warning that it is copy-protected, just a small print credit to "Cactus Data Shield 200 by Courtesy of Midbar Tech Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel". Unhappy UK consumers can now claim their replacement. The US version, launched on 27 November, will not be protected.

    Philips controls the CD standard and their spokesman says: "Any changes that put a disc outside the CD standard result in a disc that should no longer be described or marketed as a CD."

    The Natalie Imbruglia disk is a "multisession" mix of twelve ordinary 16 bit CD music tracks, and one data track containing the same music compressed by a proprietory process into a 29.4 megabyte file. When played on a Windows PC, without any attempt at copying, a program on the CD over-rides Windows Media Player, and plays a highly compressed version of the music at 80 kbps - the normal CD standard is 1.4 mbps.

    This stops some PC copy software working. But it also means people who legitimately choose to listen to the disk through a PC get poor sound. Other ways of playing the disk have also been affected. Some Macs play no music, while others cannot play Track 1. The disk cannot be listened to when the Philips CD recorder is used as a player. And Track 1 will not play on a Sony PlayStation 2 deck, although Track 2 will..."

    full story at http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991586

  • #2
    Who the hell is Natalie Imbruglia?
    According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless...

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Guru
      Who the hell is Natalie Imbruglia?
      she used to appear in the aussie soap neighbours a few years ago before she moved on to her singing career!

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      • #4
        Yeah, what was the name of her most popular song? Ummm ... i cant remember, but i liked it.
        Seth, are you ok? I`m peachy Kate. The world is my oyster. - Seth Gecko

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        • #5
          "Torn"

          A significant piece of empirical evidence that men will listen to music if it has "naked" in the lyrics; doubly so if the singer is a hot chick.
          Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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          • #6
            Damn, we forgot to buy her CD today.
            Oh well, I will rush to the CD-shop tomorrow then. With all the CD-coupons and stamp-on-coupons I have lying around, it shouldn't be a problem getting it for free

            Jord.
            Jordâ„¢

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            • #7
              Attached Files
              www.lizziemorrison.com

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              • #8
                .
                Attached Files
                www.lizziemorrison.com

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                • #9
                  a lurvely layydhee......

                  Crap misico tho....

                  Wouldnt want her stuff anyway!!!

                  RedRed
                  Dont just swallow the blue pill.

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                  • #10
                    Yes it has "naked" in the lyrics ... tho thats the reson i liked it ... really ... ok, maybe just a little bit
                    Seth, are you ok? I`m peachy Kate. The world is my oyster. - Seth Gecko

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Guru
                      Who the hell is Natalie Imbruglia?
                      One hit wonder.
                      Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

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                      • #12
                        if anyone cares she's on Radio 1 right now.
                        www.lizziemorrison.com

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                        • #13
                          If I Bought a cd that had that kind of protection I would probably go back to the store and threathen to showe the CD up the salesmans @ss!!

                          The music monopolys seems to have forgotten the fact that We pay for the cd with the music so we can listen to it wenever we want to, not becase we like to give them monye
                          If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                          Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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